Isaiah 34:5-17

New King James Version

⁵ “For ^(A)My sword shall be bathed in heaven;
Indeed it ^(B)shall come down on Edom,
And on the people of My curse, for judgment.
⁶ The ^(C)sword of the Lord is filled with blood,
It is made ^[a]overflowing with fatness,
With the blood of lambs and goats,
With the fat of the kidneys of rams.
For ^(D)the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah,
And a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
⁷ The wild oxen shall come down with them,
And the young bulls with the mighty bulls;
Their land shall be soaked with blood,
And their dust ^[b]saturated with fatness.”

⁸ For it is the day of the Lord’s ^(E)vengeance,
The year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
^9 (F)Its streams shall be turned into pitch,
And its dust into brimstone;
Its land shall become burning pitch.
¹⁰ It shall not be quenched night or day;
^(G)Its smoke shall ascend forever.
^(H)From generation to generation it shall lie waste;
No one shall pass through it forever and ever.
^11 (I)But the ^[c]pelican and the ^[d]porcupine shall possess it,
Also the owl and the raven shall dwell in it.
And ^(J)He shall stretch out over it
The line of confusion and the stones of emptiness.
¹² They shall call its nobles to the kingdom,
But none shall be there, and all its princes shall be nothing.

¹³ And ^(K)thorns shall come up in its palaces,
Nettles and brambles in its fortresses;
^(L)It shall be a habitation of jackals,
A courtyard for ostriches.
¹⁴ The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the ^[e]jackals,
And the wild goat shall bleat to its companion;
Also ^[f]the night creature shall rest there,
And find for herself a place of rest.
¹⁵ There the arrow snake shall make her nest and lay eggs
And hatch, and gather them under her shadow;
There also shall the hawks be gathered,
Every one with her mate.

¹⁶ “Search from ^(M)the book of the Lord, and read:
Not one of these shall fail;
Not one shall lack her mate.
For My mouth has commanded it, and His Spirit has gathered them.
¹⁷ He has cast the lot for them,
And His hand has divided it among them with a measuring line.
They shall possess it forever;
From generation to generation they shall dwell in it.”